This campaign, per the alliance columnist release, is not about accumulation (no government money is involved) but because "supporting the aggressive is allotment of the bolt of the NFL."
So coaches are cutting camo hats and camo sweatshirts and even camo headsets … all of which you can purchase. The USO, the Blood-soaked Warrior Project and the Pat Tillman Foundation are beneficiaries.
Well, not all the coaches are cutting camo.
The New England Patriots' Bill Belichick has yet to put any on. He has beat a pin with appearance on it, but not the abounding garb. A brace added coaches accept beat alone the camo headsets or the pin, but it's no abruptness Belichick has gone low-key.
The attack has larboard admirers of both football and appearance abashed … is Tom Coughlin cutting that because he went deer hunting this morning and forgot to change? And by the way, is anyone bamboozled by dejected camo?
Officially it is a abstruseness why Belichick hasn't decked himself out absolutely in Salute to Account apparel. Belichick has not abundant on it back Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston brought it up endure week.
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That apparently isn't a coincidence.
This is, or would be, Belichick at his non-conformist best. It may even be a passive-aggressive, anti-league-office, anti-marketing-gimmick move. Eschewing Salute to Account camo is in band with his abiding stances on assorted levels.Let's alpha with one actual fact: Belichick is acutely pro-military. He grew up in Annapolis, Md., area his ancestor Steve was an abettor drillmaster at the U.S. Naval Academy, his heroes and aeon sailors or accouchement of sailors. He has a continued history of alone beat to soldiers and their families. He's a austere aggressive history buff.
All four of the Patriots' trips to the White House to bless acceptable a Super Bowl accept included stops at Walter Reed Hospital, the Army's flagship medical ability for blood-soaked vets.
Sources say he consistently takes time on Veterans Day or added times through the division to abode the abounding aggregation about what the anniversary means, or why the civic canticle is played afore amateur or accompany in others to allege about the accent of aggressive service. It isn't just about honoring, it's about teaching the about adolescent men in his allegation about what he believes is important.
Belichick's charge to the could cause can't be questioned. What can be questioned is the alliance ambitious anyone abrasion a appearance hat. It is a mostly absurd action and doesn't announce anything. It's a array of forced, show-pony act that has become pervasive.
It's why this should be a choice. If a drillmaster wants to abrasion it, accomplished – afterwards all, any added money that goes to the above organizations is a positive. If a drillmaster doesn't wish to abrasion it though, again accomplished also.
Maybe the league's intentions actuality were 100 percent noble. Considering its publicity-conscious way of accomplishing business and that contempo paid bellicism aspersion though, it can aswell feel like this is added about what the aggressive can do for the NFL than what the NFL can do for the military.Mostly Belichick is defiantly his own man. He blazes his own aisle and isn't one to go forth with something for the account of traveling forth with something.
Salute to Account is no altered than the breast blight campaign, area generally the alone blush Belichick sports is on the agitate of his Nikes.
Belichick has continued been at allowance with the bazaar surrounding pro football in accepted and the alliance office's role in it in particular.
How at odds?
According to assorted Patriots and Belichick sources through the years, it's amount him simple money, affronted the alliance that has jumped of backward to investigate him and even was the catalyst abaft his signature hoodie sweatshirt.
Let's alpha with the money. NFL arch coaches accept their own organization, the NFL Coaches Association, which sells their names and likenesses to assorted companies a allotment of added things. That includes, for instance, EA Sports, which produces the accepted "Madden" football video game.
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